No one is defending rapists, whereas the border-junkies would like everyone to believe that all undocumented immigrants are committing violent felonies, as if a visa card would magically prevent rape, or that no natural-born citizens, white or otherwise, ever commit rape.
The point is not that all illegal immigrants are violent criminals, or that only illegal immigrants are criminals (most illega immigrants are not violent criminals, and most people in the US who commit crimes are not illegal immigrants), it is that there is a significant problem with illegal immigrants who are criminals (a large percentage of LA gang members are illegal immigrants, for example), and that we need to make it easier to locate and deport such people (in my opinion, the best way to reduce illegal immigration in general is to go after businesses that knowingly hire illegals, and to encourage the Mexican government to work on rural development and economic liberalization so that people would have less of an incentive to come here illegally.)
Using their immigration status to remove career criminals who happen to be here illegally is not discrimination or racism; it's common sense. Here's a couple articles about the issue:
http://www.city-journal.org/html/14_1_the_illegal_alien.html
http://www.nationalreview.com/dunphy/dunphy200401220906.asp
"undocumented immigrants"
Criminal aliens, their first step into the United States they are breaking the law, we all have to follow the rules, why are they exempt?